Subj: Special ALERT:
MyFamily.com and
RootsWeb.com join forces
Date: 06/21/2000 4:13:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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21 June 2000
SPECIAL EDITION
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MyFamily.com and
RootsWeb.com Join Forces:
Alliance Allows Free Genealogy to Continue on the Web
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MYFAMILY.COM AND
ROOTSWEB.COM JOIN FORCES
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MyFamily.com, Inc., the leading online family network, announced today
that it has entered into an agreement to acquire
RootsWeb.com, the
oldest and largest free community genealogy site.
RootsWeb.com will
continue to be free to all users and will maintain its own unique URL at
http://www.rootsweb.com.
"This is truly a winning combination for both organizations and for the
millions
of users who make up our audiences," said Greg Ballard, CEO of
MyFamily.com, Inc.
The union will provide
RootsWeb.com with the financial backing to expand
and the
business structure needed to focus on preserving, sharing, and
exchanging family.history records. As part of the
MyFamily.com network
of sites, the
RootsWeb.com site will be able continue its tradition of
free access to information with additional technology tools, increased
family research content, and a greater range of genealogical resources.
"RootsWeb.com fits well with the
MyFamily.com vision of creating the
largest and
most active online resource for families and family history research,"
said Dr.Brian Leverich, founder of
RootsWeb.com. "This agreement will
expand the number of
RootsWeb.com users and content contributors. At
the same time, we have ensured that
RootsWeb.com content, services,
mailing lists, and Web pages will remain free, while allowing the site
to provide more functionality and resources
to a larger audience as a result of our being part of the
MyFamily.com
network."
Ancestry.com, part of the
MyFamily.com network, has a seventeen-year
history of publishing award-winning books, magazines, and CDs, and
currently offers more than 600 million records and over 2,500 databases.
More than half of the data is freely accessible to all Web users.
Ancestry.com also hosts, free of charge, the Ancestry World Tree and
Online Family Tree software, which allow users to connect and
collaborate with other researchers who are working on the same lines.
Ancestry.com users retain ownership of their data, and the company
pledges never to charge for access to that data or to publish it. For
those who prefer to keep their information a little closer to home,
sister site
MyFamily.com allows users to create free, private sites that
can be used to post family history data, share news and photos with
family, chat online, and
much more.
RootsWeb.com is a valuable resource for family historians, with
interactive guides, discussion lists, and numerous tools for tracing
one's ancestry; it hosts more than 17,000 independently authored Web
sites and about 19,000 mailing lists. All of these services will remain
free to users.
As part of its ongoing commitment to the genealogical community,
MyFamily.com, Inc. will also continue to support RootsWeb.com-affiliated
volunteer, non-profit
organizations, such as The USGenWeb Project, Immigrant Ship Transcribers
Guild, The Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths Projects, and other groups
that provide free genealogical content.
The
MyFamily.com acquisition of
RootsWeb.com promises to make it easier
than ever for family historians everywhere to discover their heritage.
For the full press release, see
http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm.
MYFAMILY.COM, INC. URLs:
Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com
MyFamily.com
http://www.myfamily.com
FamilyHistory.com
http://www.familyhistory.com
Ancestry World Tree
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/usersub/worldtree/main.htm
FGS Society Hall
http://www.familyhistory.com/societyhall/main.asp
Ancestry.com Library
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/main.htm
ROOTSWEB.COM URLS
RootsWeb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com
WorldConnect Project
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/
International Black Sheep Society
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/
International Internet Genealogical Society
http://iigs.rootsweb.com/
Obituary Daily Times
http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/
INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS/PROJECTS
HOSTED AT
ROOTSWEB.COM
The USGenWeb Project
http://www.USGenWeb.org
The WorldGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggenweb/index.html
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
http://ISTG.rootsweb.com
The Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths Projects
http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
http://www.cyndislist.com/
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Best Wishes,
Juliana Smith, Editor, Ancestry Daily News
Megan Vandre, Associate Editor
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Greetings,
Since a few of you might have accounts at RootsWeb, you might be
interested in this.
Fred Smoot
SC, TNGenWeb Project
CC, Pend Oreille County WAGenWeb
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